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Logistics Bathrooms are located near the foot of the escalators in the lobby… Break at 3:00-3:15pm Wi-Fi Sakai sakai123 July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A.6

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How are you? Why are you Here? Name? Affiliation? Role? Previous knowledge of Sakai? Interest in Sakai? Favorite thing to do in Boston? July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A.7

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Overview of Sakai What is Sakai? History Getting Involved

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What is Sakai? The Sakai CLE is a flexible, enterprise application that supports teaching, learning and scholarly collaboration in either fully or partially online environments. The Sakai CLE is distributed as free, open-source software, which offers the ultimate in flexibility and avoids the risks of vendor lock-in and escalating license costs. Built by educators for educators. Foundation Software Community July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A.9

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Licensing EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY LICENSE — Sakai’s software is licensed under the terms of the ECL, a variant of the Apache license. The ECL encourages a wide range of use including the production of derivative work in the commercial space. NO FEES OR ROYALTIES — Sakai is free to acquire, use, copy, modify, merge, publish, redistribute & sublicense for any purpose provided our copyright notice & disclaimer are included in all copies of the original or derivative work(s). NO “COPYLEFT” RESTRICTIONS — unlike GPL redistributed derivative works are neither required to adopt the Sakai license nor publish the source code as open-source. July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A.16

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Sakai (the Community) is… …a global, diverse group of individuals and organizations interested in and motivated to support Sakai the software and each other. July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A.32

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Sakai Partners Program SPP provides the intellectual, human and financial capital necessary to support both the foundation and the work of the community. Foundation governance Help determine priorities for the community Work cooperatively in every phase of Sakai's software production process. Membership in the Sakai Partners Program is optional and is open to academic institutions, non-profits and commercial organizations committed to Sakai's community-source vision of open-source software development and distribution. July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A.33

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Sakai Partners Program Regular membership: $10,000 per year (less than 3000 student enrollment in largest semester, $5000/year) Sakai Commercial Affiliate (SCA) membership fees based on a sliding scale: $2000 per $1 million in revenues (minimum of $2000/maximum of $10,000) 20% discount for three-year memberships July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A.34

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Getting Involved… Development Process Evolving for Sakai 3 (and Sakai 2.7) Everyone should be involved, including end-users, end- user support, instructional designers/technologists, and system/database administrators Key are the resource-controllers and the Product Council Foundation is there only to coordinate New Requirements Process (product and community much more mature now) Community Support Ask and answer questions on the lists Help contribute and maintain wiki content and documentation

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. The ePortfolio Process Collection Selection Reflection Connection A continuously iterative process Collect information on yourself and your learning Select information you want to share with specific audiences via a portfolio Reflect upon the meaning of what you share in relation to who you are and who you want to become Connect with others by sharing your portfolio and receiving their feedback (Integrative Learning) (Reflective Learning) (Social Learning)

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. Forms Created with xsd via Forms tool xsd may be generated using Form Builder tool Available for export/import Accessed through and stored in Resources Used for Providing reflection prompts Offering feedback and evaluation Structuring participant content Matrices Wizards Portfolios

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. Wizards Allow the creation of a series of screens to "scaffold" users through the process of entering the data to use in creating portfolios Two types of wizards in OSP: Sequential Wizards A set of pages presented one after the other. Hierarchical wizards A nested tree of categories and pages Wizard pages can include guidance (instructions, rationale and examples) for the portfolio user Creators of wizards can add forms to wizard pages to prompt portfolio owners, reviewers and evaluators to provide Evidence and documentation of learning Reflections Feedback Evaluations

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. Portfolios May be created from portfolio templates May also be created freeform by user User selects content and applies style and layout Choice of styles and layouts supplied by site organizer or portfolio admin Resume Portfolio created using a portfolio template

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. Matrix Portfolio Created from the data within a matrix

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. Co-Curricular Transcript May be created with or without a matrix

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. Portfolio Templates Created with.xml and used to structure and display student evidence of learning according to the student’s choice of audience..

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July th Sakai Conference - Boston, MA, U.S.A. Challenges to Using OSP Functional knowledge of the tools and how they work together Takes significant time to understand Much of that time will be spent unproductively Technical knowledge Not every shop understands the XML stack, or how to apply the knowledge to OSP Where the technical knowledge exists, the connection to the pedagogy may not be there Portfolio implementations are much more than tech projects Ongoing leadership is essential in sustaining the effort into the future

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Evaluating Sakai - Decision Criteria Functionality Requirements Where there Critical, Essential or Desirable functionality gaps? Staffing and Support Requirements Would we need to hire more staff? Health of the Sakai Community Is the Sakai Community here to stay? Reliability & Scalability Can we scale up over the next decade to meet demand? Realizing Innovation Would innovation truly be realized?

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What are we doing now? Expanding ePortfolio pilots Related to Core Curriculum redesign and Middlestates accreditation Starting to see major use of Project Sites Faculty committees, administrative groups, student clubs (> 90 sites to date) Integration with SIS has increased productivity Worked with rSmart on integration, Banner SIS is next Teaching and Learning innovation Instructors are moving from “transition” to innovation Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award